Cool Stuff: January 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Big Bear

A film crew is surprised by a Big Bear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eryxAcsTcOA

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Gore Vidal Slidshow

An interesting slideshow of the people in Gore Vidal's life.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/02/photos-gore-vidal-women#slide=1

Lost Marilyn Monroe Photos

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/06/marilyn-monroe-nude-photos-exclusive-slideshow#slide=1
Photos: The Lost Marilyn Nudes—Outtakes from Her Last On-Set Photo Shoot

It was the assignment of an ambitious young photographer’s dreams: capturing Hollywood’s sexiest star for Look magazine in 1960. Lawrence Schiller’s chemistry with Marilyn Monroe seemed promising, and their professional relationship deepened when he photographed her on the set of her final, never-finished movie, Something’s Got to Give. The breathtaking nude shots from that shoot, some unpublished till now.

Marilyn and Her Monsters

For all the millions of words she has inspired, Marilyn Monroe remains something of a mystery. Now a sensational archive of the actress’s own writing—diaries, poems, and letters—is being published. With exclusive excerpts from the book, Fragments, the author enters the mind of a legend: the scars of sexual abuse; the pain of psychotherapy; the betrayal by her third husband, Arthur Miller; the constant specter of hereditary madness; and the fierce determination to master her art.

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/11/marilyn-monroe-201011

Monday, January 28, 2013

Sounds of a Pond

A very relaxing UTube of birds on a pond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brmYuDTN3BI

Albert Brooks in "Vanity Fair"

Interesting interview of Albert Brooks where he talks about going to school with kid of famous parents, handing out with John Lennon, doing movies and advice on marriage.

From Vanity Fair...
"Sometimes undersold, always ahead of his time, Albert Brooks has made a festival’s worth of classics—Modern Romance, Lost in America, Defending Your Life, etc. The Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director gets into it with Judd Apatow, who directed Brooks in this month’s This Is 40, on topics great and small: his neuroses, his marriage, his Twitter feed, John Lennon, death, and integrity."
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/albert-brooks-this-is-40

Thursday, January 17, 2013

The Fixx - Saved By Zero

INX = Suicide Blond

$600 Car

$600 for the car that gets 258 miles per gallon. This car is not a toy and is ready to be released in China next year. The single seater aero car totes VW (Volkswagen) branding. Volkswagen did a lot of very highly protected testing of this car in Germany, but it was not announced until now where the car would make its first appearance

The car was introduced at the VW stockholders meeting as the most economical car in the world is presented.

45 Self Portraits on 45 Drugs

"Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders conducted a bizarre experiment. For several weeks, he took a different drug every day and made a portrait of himself under the influence."